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Maria Sciullo David Lee/Netflix Actors Michael Potts, Glynn Turman and Colman Domingo stride along the “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” set on Pittsburgh’s North Side. David Lee/Netflix Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” director George C. Wolfe and Chadwick Boseman discuss a scene. Diana Stoughton Murrysville native Diana Stoughton is up for an Academy Award as set decorator for the film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Jan Pascale Beechview’s Jan Pascale is up for an Academy Award as set decorator for the film "Mank." Nikolai Loveikis | Netflix Gary Oldman as Herman J. ...

Prediction: One year after Parasite’s historic victory, will the Academy have another uncommon spell of good taste? The stars appear to be aligning for Nomadland, which has won the top prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the British Academy, the Producers Guild, and the Directors Guild (the last three of which share lots of members with the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences). But don’t pop the bubbly for last year’s most critically acclaimed movie just yet. After all, 1917 won all of those same precursors, only to lose Best Picture at the finish line. Parasite, which s...

Leave it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to show the Golden Globes how it’s done. The nominees are a step up, but best of all, the Oscars are sweeping Zoom into the dustbin. The much-delayed 93rd Academy Awards convenes Sunday in pandemic style: the ceremony will be social-distanced and attendees will be maskless while on camera. The pandemic restrictions aren’t the only changes: Six years after the first #OscarsSoWhite tweet, the year’s pool is one of the most diverse in the show’s history — though the multiple “Da 5 Bloods” snubs prove that there is still wo...

David Fincher's Mank is based on screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz’s (portrayed by Gary Oldman) time writing the script for the iconic film Citizen Kane. Coming in with 10 nominations, Mank is one of the most buzzed-about films of the year. Production designer Donald Graham Burt and Fincher have been working together since Zodiac (2007) and are clearly a winning combination. They’ve collaborated on Academy Award–nominated films (and winners) such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). For Mank, Graham Bu...

Where to stream this year's Oscar contenders, from 'Nomadland' to 'Two Distant Strangers' Most of the year's nominated films are available on home streaming services, here's where to find the best Adam Graham Everything about this year's Oscars is a little bit different, from the timing of the show to the types of movies nominated to the ceremony itself, which will unfold on April 25 in a live presentation we still don't know a whole lot about.  It's befitting of a year where Hollywood was turned upside down and inside out, where theaters were shuttered and blockbuster movies sat on the si...